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How Restaurants Can Plan For The Next Hospitality Crisis

Modern Restaurant Management

Some of the biggest risks that you’re likely to face as a restaurant owner include: Foodborne illnesses: food poisoning, contaminated water, and cross-contamination of cooking ingredients. A damaged reputation from low restaurant ratings or failed safety inspections. Shortages in customer demand or employee services.

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How to Read a Restaurant P&L (Profit and Loss) Statement + Free Template

SpotOn

That could simply be food sales , alcohol , and non-alcoholic beverages. Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) Your Cost of Goods Sold is the cost of your food and beverages. That way you'll have accurate food and beverage cost percentages for each COGS line item. Those sales line items should match the ones in your POS reporting.

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How to Open a Bar: Comprehensive Guide on Starting a Bar

7 Shifts

While this could be a rewarding venture, opening a bar is not exactly the same as opening a food business. Your business name will also appear on your marketing materials, staff uniforms, menu, social media accounts, and advertisements, so make sure it isn't too long or complicated.

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Questions in the Minds of Restaurant Job Applicants

Ken Burgin

Questions in the Minds of Chefs or Cooks Applying for a Job What is the restaurant’s culinary or food philosophy? What are the safety and hygiene standards in the kitchen? What are the expectations for personal presentation and uniform? How is performance evaluated, and is feedback welcome?

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How to Onboard Restaurant Staff: A New Hire Checklist for Restaurant Employees

Touch Bistro

For Canadian employees: Social Insurance Number (SIN) card copy Form TD1 (Canada federal and provincial or territorial) Employee contact information and emergency contact information. And if needed, help new staff obtain food handlers permits. You’ll need to collect the following paperwork from your new hires. Clarification.

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‘Who Watches the Kitchen?’

Modern Restaurant Management

Alongside wild stories detailing how foodborne illnesses can happen, Shaw offers practical solutions to avoid food safety breaches. Shaw is a food safety specialist, podcaster, founder of Savvy Food Safety, co-founder of My Trusted Source, and an entrepreneur, author, and speaker who spent 30+ years working in the foodservice industry.

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Easter Eat-In, Potbelly Pantry and #ThePlateFund

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM News Bites features the Independent Restaurant Coalition, Tripadvisor, Inspire Brands Foundation, WorkJam, EZ-Chow, US Foods, Potbelly Pantry, Just Salad, Zalat Pizza, Kentucky Fried Chicken, California Pizza Kitchen, Nando’s and Street Factory Media. Ensuring business interruption insurance covers COVID-19.